she began her first visit on tuesday with senate majority leader harry reid. >> thank you very much.hen we finish here, we will go in another room and have an in- depth conversation. i want everyone to understand, we have a whole package year. academically, we have princeton, yale law school, the editor of the law review. that is very impressive. if that were not enough, her background is very significant. as a trial lawyer, i'm very impressed. a prosecutor, a trial judge for many years, and then an appellate judge. we could not have anyone more qualified. i think your life story is so compelling, and america identifies with the underdog. you have been an underdog many times in your life. but your top dog, and i appreciated. thank you very much, everybody -- i appreciate it. >> later, sotomayor met with patrick leahy, senate judiciary committee chair. >> the judge and i were talking about the second circuit, difference -- dear friends. [inaudible] have you all got enough footage? >> thank you, senator. >> can we -- let's be fair. she will talk about that. >> do you know when you may

harry reid is moving through the upper chamber. he later said if the house can move a bill, then he can move a bill. this is speaker policies -- nancy pelosi is flagship bill. whether she can get this through the house. if the kids to the house, it will pick up momentum with a push from the white house. you never know. host: in more mundane issues such as spending bill, the word is the house will take up the homeland security spending bill this week. how was congress doing in getting their work done by the beginning of the end of the year? calleguest: they have made some progress. the chairman wants to move all the appropriations, one by one, through the house by the august recess. that is a tall order. it has not been done in recent years. on the senate side, the senate wants to move every bill one by one by the beginning of the year. now with the war supplemental, they need to get that off the agenda this week. whether they will get them all done by september 30th, we will see. host: we talked about a lot this of our -- this hour

our leader, harry reid, insisted we stay here on this matter. that's leadership. he could have said, let's move on to another issue. it's taking too long, another couple of weeks, three weeks, to get it done but because harry reid and dick durbin and my friend mike enzi have stayed with us and insisted we go through a normal process which was right to do in our committee, good staff people who worked hard on this, we will get this done today. it might just move along to the next issue but for the first time we're going do make a difference by requiring that the food and drug administration regulate the production, the sale and the marketing of these products much that is history. and i can't tell you how proud i am to be involved in it in the name of ted kennedy, in the name of others who is come before us, mike defin dewine of ohio who championed this along with henry waxman in the other body and the thousands of organization whose have joined us today. mr. durbin: i thank the senator from connecticut for his leadership on this issue. just a few week he had histo

>> well, i do think that when harry reid says i don't work for president obama is a case of a thou dost protest too much because although the congress did break the details of that the president got what he wanted. and it is almost of those is delegated the hard work out there so that he can get -- you didn't do that because congress has some great power, he did because he knew that was the way to get a pass most quickly. their argument was in favor of something and then send it to the hill the hill would pick it over for months and would have a stimulus bill even today so i thank you assembly is marra strategic decision to get his bill passed and everybody thinks of it as his bill passed as quickly as possible and let the guys on the hill fill in the details. >> will he do that on health care? >> i think to a degree he will have to because he wants to get a pass, but it will be his health care bill in the end. and he is somebody who doesn't have to have a every dotted i and frosty in his original plan. he was a health care plan even if it turns out to be 40 percent of what he originall

if i was involved at duke energy for -- pin building but yucca mountain facility that senator harry reid is blocking -- it is below a former atomic testing site in nevada. it is 1 mile below the earth. that is where we should be storing nuclear waste instead of storing it in places in south carolina. a lot of what is hoisted upon us is virtual reality for people very narrow purposes. host: let us hear from michael on the independent line from chicago, eleanor. caller: good morning. i agree with mr. hackett -- about 90 percent of what he described. i will mention what i disagree with. but to the point of global warming, the language has actually changed because it has been a lot colder. i think we are having historic lows in temperatures around the globe so now it is changed to global climate change. the sunspot activity that you talked about earlier, many scientists completely agree with that and we are at a historic low with respect to sunspots and obviously it is a lot colder. there is some concern, and i would like to ask you moving forward, there are programs out there to curtail glo

i don't think anybody quite knows what harry reid is doing, or what direction he is pushing anybody. it is a sad thing to see. it is eroding a lot of the core constituency. host: kevin baker is the author of a number of books including, sometimes you see it coming and dreamland. he is a contributing editor for harper's magazine. caller: this is a very interesting topic. this reminds me a lot of the story -- i feel like the tractors are coming, because in not taking cues from big business. we have to start looking at things global as thickly. we will create plenty of jobs and careers. to be honest, i believe it is technology, and people will have to get into more technological fields. capitalism is great, but when you don't regulate greed, people say we will staff the working class and going overseas to get more cheap level -- -- to get cheap labor. at some point we will be competing with south america and china as a global economy comes together. we will be a beacon for consumerism, not a beacon for hope anymore. guest: there is a limit to how much we can sustain with the economy, ju

caller: last friday, the house passed the nancy pelosi-harry reid national energy tax. in just wondering how come you have not had as a morning subject ever since then? i regard it as one of the most disastrous things that has ever happened in the country. host: we devoted friday morning with the expected passage with two members of the congress. it will come up again because the senate will take up the bill with a lot of debate. the president talked about it yesterday. we carried his announcement from the white house. has been an issue we have been focusing on. caller: i will be eagerly awaiting that. . host: tell us why you oppose the bill. caller: here is one of the reasons. they say this will cost everybody $175. if you take into consideration, everything from banking and slicing bread, wrapping meat, shipping anything across the country, anything you do that requires energy -- it will add to the price of those things. that will be a lot more than $175. host: john boehner called the bill -- caller: i heard it, but i do not remember it of hands. host: it was a little

we can blame nancy pelosi, harry reid, chris dodd, george soros, david axelrod and their ilk for then fall of this the country. it saddens me greatly to think we were the great powerful good in the world. we as americans knew america to be strong. and we were the liberators of the entire world. we are becoming a weak nation. obama really thinks he is a soft-spoken julius caesar and thinks he's going to conquer the world with his soft spoken sweet talk and really thinks he's going to bring all the enemies of the world into a little playground where they'll swing each other back and forth. we and we alone are the right frame of mind to free this nation from this obama oppression. and let's give thanks to all the great people like sean hannity, rush limbaugh, bill o'reilly, laura ingraham, mark levin, william bennett, glen beck, hugh hewitt, dennis frayinger, dennis miller, dick morris, ann coulter, michael steele, karl rove, newt gingrich, thomas so, victor davis hansen, shelby steel, charles kroutheimer, michele malkin, fred barnes and so many others. let's give thanks to them for not

under nancy pelosi and harry reid, is the pendulum swinging back towards congress tomorrow both democratic congressional leaders have made it clear that they do not work for president obama. the question remains about whether we have an imperial presidency or an imperiled president and the same thing of congress. we have able individuals who have observed in participated in the separation of power for many years. i will go in alphabetical order started at the end of the table. terry eastland is the publisher of "the weekly standard." his written numerous books on politics and law -- he has written numerous books on politics and law. shailagh murray from "washington post" has written extensively about congressional and presidential elections. shchip ried has anchored political coverage for m.s. in the sea and work for abc and cbs. he is filed stories on the war and terror worldwide. don wolfensberger is a well- known congressional scholar and a former chief of staff of the house rules committee. we will begin with brief opening comments beginning at the end of the table. we will have a brie

senator reid, harry reid, declared -- and i agreed with him -- in a press conference after my bipartisan senate amendment was passed that -- quote -- "we will never allow terrorists to be released into the united states." i think that's a good statement. i agree with it. he went on to say -- and i'm quoting now -- "we don't want them around the united states. i can't make any -- make it any clearer than the statement i have given you. we will never allow terrorists to be released in the united states." well, that sounds real good and i agree with him and i hope that he's right. however, the problem is, if you try to try these people in our federal court system when the rules of evidence are different in terms of admissibility of evidence, many times you would not be able to get a prosecution and they would be turned loose. finally, senator durbin said the feeling was at this point we were defending the unknown. we were being asked to defend a plan that hasn't been announced. well, i have to say, it still hasn't been announced. now, two weeks ago, the obama administration again went again

here is senate majority leader hit -- harry reid talking about health care today. >> as the debate escalates over health care, it is easy to become sidetracked by misrepresentation or attempted to point fingers. when we do those things we lose sight of what is at the heart of this effort. this debate in this reform. i want to take just a moment to remind all of us with this is all about, the health care debate. it is not -- it is about hardworking americans, because they are to often casualty's of or broken health care system and deserve better than to be casualties of misleading politics. for those without health care, this is a critical crisis that affects children, families, small-business is, big businesses, every single day. it is about the parent who cannot take a job to the doctor because insurance is prohibitively expensive. it is about the family that lives one accident or illness away from financial ruin. it is about small businesses to have to lay off employees work had to cancel health insurance for employees because it could not afford it. it is about the families who put off me

now, i signed that letter harry reid. now, mr. president, the hearing date, which is 48 days after judge sotomayor was selected is consistent with the 51-day average time between announcement for a presidential selection and the start of the hearings. it has been that way for the past nine court nominees. -- that were confirmed. the proposed g.o.p. alternative, that the hearings be heard after the senate returns from recess, the first tuesday after labor day, tuesday september 8th, would subject judge sotomayor to the longest confirmation hearing to any supreme court nominee in history so far as we could tell. we stopped checks when we got back to 1960. the g.o.p. plan would delay her hearing until the 107th day after her selection. robert boric, the current record holder, waited 76 days, thomas alito waited 64 -- 64 and 67 days respectfully. mr. president, we are doing our utmost to have this nominee have a fair -- we want to -- a fair hearing, we want to make sure that the republicans have all the time they need. but history doe

. >> have you spoken to harry reid or any of the leadership in washington? >> yes. >> [unintelligible] >> i talked to the majority leader. he called after the decision was announced. i'll be on the health and labor pension committee. i am very happy about that. i'll be on indian affairs, which asked for. i will be on aging which dovetails nicely with health, education, and pensions. what i've been doing? we have been doing a lot. i've been going back and forth from washington. i have a staff in place so i can hit the ground -- if not running, trotting. i have been trying to keep abreast of what is going on in the senate. it is not the same as being there though, i know that. we have also had to raise some money during this period. i have been doing that as well. i have been meeting a lot of people around the state. we have had folks over for dinner that can help with education policy and energy policy. >> how many more people you have the higher? -- do you have to hire? >> you should send it to -- i am not sure exactly. we're pretty staffed up in washington.

some union officials have already approached senate majority leader harry reid to voice their concerns about bacchus. that is also in that "the hill" newspaper. phoenix, a democrat. caller: i am fine. host: list of about your experience with health care. are you on medicare? caller: i think it is wonderful. without it i would be in a homeless shelter. host: do you get to choose your doctor? caller: i get a general doctor and then he refers before whatever -- last month had to have a carotid artery and he had to refer me to a surgeon. then i go to the surgeon and get all these tests that the check for the carotid artery. he set me up for surgery.

services the co-chairman was appointed by house speaker nancy pelosi and senate majority leader harry reid. from 2007 to 2008 mr. thibault worked at the navigant consulting and prior to that he was the chief compliance officer at younis is bedell systems. mr. thibault served as the debt the director of the audit agency report from 1973 to 2005. mr. thibault holds a b.a. from seven ogon university and a master's apart from central michigan university. the honorable christopher shays serves as co-chair of the commission of wartime contacting and was appointed by house minority leader john boehner. from 1987 to 2009 mr. shays served in the house of representatives where he represented the fourth district in connecticut. during his time in congress mr. shays served as ranking member of the subcommittee on foreign affairs as well as chairman of the committee. mr. shays holds a bachelor of arts from principia colleges wallison nda and mpa from new york university. mr. charles deaver serves as a wartime contrasting appointed by senate majority leader harry b. pirg aliza professor university of ba

not the kind of health care speaker pelosi and harry reid desire. >> can you talk a little bit about -- plans cost, what it would cost over 10 years? >> our plan costs about $700 billion. the same amount that the tarp money is invested in the legislative language suggests it should all be back in this five years. if we don't cap it and spend it on something like this, it will be spent on some other government program. i think what we would find quickly, once every american has a health insurance policy, the cost of health care and health insurance would go down dramatically. it is going to go to opposite way if the government funds health care. >> the plan that we have and actually the plan that has been put on the table by representatives ryan and nunez is budget neutral. it doesn't cost any more money over the period of time. that's because if we as a society reform our health system in a positive way, in a way that provides the appropriated sentence in the system and allows for the appropriate competition and the appropriate decision-making authority for patients and their familie

. >> in addition to the 850-page form, harry reid said he wanted to move the reform bill through the senate that includes a path way for citizenship for illegal aliens. are you also interested in moving a similar bill to the house? >> i've suggested to a group last week that being in congress this year has been like standing in front of a machine gun, whether it is the stimulus bill or the preparation bill or whether it was the trillion dollar deficit for as far as the eye can see in the budget or whether it is the proposal taking over our health care system, a national energy tax and now, somebody is going to suggest that we're going to try do immigration reform in the midst of all this? how much is enough? put me in the doubtful column. [laughter] >> do you think president went far enough in his press conference? >> i think the president did step up his criticism of the iranian regime. i congratulate him for that and we need to keep the pressure on him. >> you don't just come from any state. you come from mississippi, one of the poorest states in the country. in the delta you hear

harry reid has been a strong advocate of reimportation. that's not the issue here. the issue is whether or not, at long last, a decade later our colleague from massachusetts, senator kennedy, mite, mike dewine, our former colleague from ohio, henry waxman from california, tom davis of virginia in a bipartisan basis have tried year in and year out to get this done. we haven't been able to achieve it. so i know the game. but this is not a game. this is life and death with people. for 10 long years we've. mr. bennet: able to pass legislation -- mr. dodd: for 10 long years we've not been able to pass this legislation. if people are going to insist on long-term amendments based 0 on a short-term appeal, we will have done great damage. so i appreciate immensely the position the majority leader has taken. and my colleagues know because i did go through the process last week in our committee. there are any number of appealing amendments. and i want to thank the members of the committee who wanted to vote for some of those amendments. i see my good friend jeff merkley from o

harry reid has called attention of the american public to that. he said the post office has competitors. fedex and ups seem to be doing pretty well. as a matter of fact, they're doing well even though there is a competitive advantage for them. that the government has done. that mailbox can't be used by federal express and ups. it can only be used by the post office. so they do have a competitive advantage. they're the only one with access to your mailbox where there's a public insurer, all companies public and private will have equal access to your mailbox and to your business. which leads to another point. nothing -- this is something i think that is used as a scare -- it has to be a scare tactic since it's so far from the truth that there's no other reason for it. nothing in the bills being considered in congress right now or suggested by president obama will require that anyone choose the public provider. you get -- if you love blue cross or united healthcare or you love cigna you can stay with that. there is no reason why you would have to cha

>> in addition to the 850-page health care reform, majority leader harry reid said he wanted to move comprehensive immigration reform bill through the senate that includes a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens and a guest worker program. are you interested in moving a similar bill through the house? >> i suggested to a group last week that being in congress this year has been like standing in front of a machine gun. whether it's the stimulus bill, the omnibus appropriations bill, the trillion-dollar deficits as far as the eye can see in the budget, whether it's the proposal on taking over a health care system, a national energy tax, and now somebody is going to suggest we're going to try to do immigration reform in the midst of all this? how much is enough? put me in the doubtful column. >> [inaudible] >> i think the president did step up his criticism of the iranian regime. i congratulate him for that. we need to keep the pressure on them. >> you don't come from just any state you come from mississippi, one of the poorest states in the country, in the delta you hear tale of fo

desire, patients and their families desire, not the kind of health care that speaker pelosi and harry reid and president obama desire. >> question in the back? >> can you talk a little bit about what it would cost over 10 years? >> about $700 billion, which is the same amount that tarp has invested in the legislative language. it suggests the tarp money should all be back in within five years. if we don't capture it and spent it on something like this, it will be spent on some new governmero

the national surface transportation policy in revenue steady commission by senate majority leader harry reid. in january 2008 after 2 years of meetings, hearings and research, our commission recommended to congress a vision for transportation policy and funding in america. a new vision which includes a framework that will reformat hopefully revolutionize the way we do transportation policy and funding for the next 50 years. one of the recommendations was substantive reform of our passenger rail system. over the next half century the united states is projected to ed 1 fifty million new residents, 50% increase over its current population. this increase will cause travel to grow at even greater rate than the population will. we will need to provide new choices which require a cultural shift for the traveling public. we presented our report to congress in january of 2008, we recommended that the entire country should be connected by a passenger rail by the year 2015. recommendations also define that the passenger rail corridor should connect population centers within 500 miles of each other. 11

medicare and medicaid will go bankrupt in 10 years and i can imagine if somebody like pelosi and harry reid in charge of health care, i can imagine the red tape and everything else and in -- is in chaos, so why would you think health care would be any different? i heard six politicians, but from canada and four from england, say, whether you do, don't go socialized medicine. people talk about prescriptions in canada, but they have two boards -- but only% 10% to the united states. there was not anything in the stimulus package to help of the veterans and stuff like that -- why pigs stink, monorails from california to nevada, and we have a big problem with what obama calls mexican immigrants and really illegal aliens, you have them in a hospital, 600 here in the bill on each one is $1 million. but i n s will not come and take them away because they cater to the illegal immigrants, which obama seems to care more about them than he does about us -- he will not help the people that just laid off. guest: you know, what the caller was saying about politicians running health care, one of the basic

will need all the effort to they can muster yet under speaker nancy pelosi and majority leader harry reidhe pendulum swinging back toward congress. both democratic congressional leaders made clear after all they do not work for president obama. so the question remains do we have an imperial presidency or in periled presidency? imperial congress or in peril converse? to resolve this conundrum and it probably is a conundrum in the literal sense we have were able individuals who observed and participated in the separation of powers minuet for many years and we are going to go in alphabetical order starting on the end of the table. terry eastland is publisher of opinion magazine and author of numerous books on politics and all including energy and executive and freedom of expression in the supreme court. shalem ra currently congressional correspondent at "the washington post" is also covered the white house and congress for "the wall street journal" and written extensively about congressional presidential elections. should read chief white house correspondent for cbs news also covered capitol

speaker nancy pelosi, and our minority leader, john boehner, also to majority leader of the senate, harry reid and senate minority reeder, mitch mcconnell, the national coalition on benefits, madam speaker, talking about the opposition to a public plan. the strong opposition to a public plan. i don't have time to stand here and read the names, madam speakerings, of all of these firm -- madam speaker, of all of these firms, but just to mention a few, wal-mart stores, xerox corporation, well point incorporated, wire howser company, national restaurant association, bank of america, national association of health underwriters, signa corporation, chrysler l.l.c., nike. i could go on and on. that's just maybe 5% of the number of companies that are part of this national coalition on benefits that are so opposed to this idea of a public plan which our colleagues at the 30-something group just an hour ago touted so strongly. at this point i would like to creeled to my good friend and colleague from georgia, dr. paul broun. mr. broun: i thank, dr. gingrey, for yielding -- i thank you, dr. gingrey, for y

then chair henry hyde and tom lantos and the senate majority and minority leaders bill frist and harry reid to enact the paul simon water for the poor act of 2005. this landmark bipartisan legislation established investment in safe and affordable water for the world's poorest as a major goal of united states foreign assistance but sadly with the last administration we were slow to implement and until last year slow to fund it. we are more than halfway to the 2015 millennium development goal with mixed results, and we must redouble our effort. a special concern is subsaharan africa that lags so far behind that will miss our modest goal to cut the people without safe drinking water and sanitation by one half by 2015, that sub-saharan africa will miss that date 25 years by water and sanitation by 61 years. and these are not just numbers. these are millions of people's lives. some progress is being made through innovative partnerships between the united states, n.g.o.'s, businesses and local partners but the stark truth remains. nearly 900 million people worldwide still lack access to safe drin

however, democrats are fully aware of that, and senate majority leader harry reid and senate environment chairwoman barbara boxer have already been working for a couple of months behind the scenes to try to build up the same kind of consensus in the senate. they have assumed that they're going to take a debate bill, the house bill, they have looked at the dynamic that have slowed it down in the house -- especially, for example, the real concerns of the farm state and agriculture committee democrat. they have been reaching out to those members in the senate, to the midwest and farm members. they recognize it is a long, tough haul, but it is a very high priority for democratic leaders. they are trying to build a legislative strategy before the bill even comes to their chamber. host: we will leave it there. corals, thank you for calling in. we are joined now by u.s. representative john shadegg. guest: house republicans believe this is the wrong way to go about this task, first and foremost. we had it with us that came before the energy and commerce committee before the energy subcommittee w

senate majority leader harry reid working off the floor to come up with an agreement to bring the legislative branch spending bill to the senate floor. the house passed its version late last week. we'll have live coverage when the gavel comes down about 2:15 here on c-span2. also on the senate side, the health committee has a mark-up session on health care legislation, covering that live at 2:30 eastern also c-span.org. while we wait for the u.s. senate to come back in, a look at item in the news and viewer phone calls from today's washington journal. >> host: showing americans are seeing better times ahead. the dateline is mexico, missouri, susan page writing to say that americans are still in a tunnel but more are beginning to see a light at its end. meanwhile, from the front page of the financial times, pessimistic executives cash out of shares with regard to stock shares. the piece says: any prospects of global economic recovery shan't stock and commodity prices tumbling yesterday, while new data showed leading u.s. corporate executives were cashing out at a record pace. further in the st

the desire, patients and their families to sawyer, not the kind of health care speaker policy, harry reid and prisoner obama design. >> question in the back. >> david with daily -- [inaudible] could you talk a little bit about how much the plan's cost, how much it would cost over ten years? >> the plant cost is invested in the legislative language suggests the t.a.r.p. money should be back in flight years. if we don't capture and spend it on something like this it would be spent on some new government program. i think we know how that works. so instead of keeping it as a permanent fund for treasury -- what we could find quickly once every american has health insurance policy the cost of health care and health insurance can go down dramatically. the plant was the opposite way. >> the planas political representatives rollin and nunes, it is budget neutral. it doesn't cost any more money over a. of time and that is because if we as a society reform our health system in a positive way in a way that provides the appropriate incentives in the system and allows for the appropriate competition an

put a stop to this high-speed train that nancy pelosi is driving and harry reid's driving, that's going to hurt our children, it's going to hurt our grandchildren, it's going to hurt america, and i'm not sure that we can recover in the next 10 decades, century. it may take that long to put us back on the right track if we can ever get back on the right track. we've seen over and over throughout history societies destroyed because of people doing things in a self-centered manner, and that's exactly what's happening in this country today. we are self-centered as a people. we need to look at serving other people, particularly our children and grandchildren. put this country back on the right track, and we can do that. former u.s. senator eric durkson once said, when he feels the heat he sees the light. the american people need to put the heat on members of congress, in the house and senate, and say no to cap and tax, cap and trade legislation, to the waxman-markey bill. they need to say no to the socialized medicine program that the liberal leadership on the democratic side is trying to fo

harry reid is lamenting not having enough republicans because he needs them somewhat. they can move a lot of the bill without the help of republicans to the budget reconciliation process which allows a simple majority vote and at the 60 vote supermajority. but there are parts of the bill that will be objected to the 60- vote threshold. they will need at least one republican. for health care to be sustainable and not rolled back by future administrations, that would be a major embarrassment, if they move a bill that does not last. >> mike pence as a political leader, a quick assessment and what kind of future does he have? >> i think he has a tremendous future in the republican party. if he is articulate on issues and those were he stands. he is personable and democrats would argue he is too rigid and doctrinaire or too conservative, but within the party, he is an up-and-coming. >> i agree. for years, reporters have looked to him as an up-and-coming before he took on an actual leaders that position. he is generally well liked, well spoken, and he once referred to himsel

there's very telling last week when senate majority leader harry reid was asked to in effect define bipartisanship on health care because for weeks we've heard that democrats want 70, 80 votes to pass health care because it's so broad and so all-encompassing. and senator reid said i'll consider it bipartisan if i can get three or four republicans. that's it. and after, democrats control 59 senate votes and i believe 258 house votes. touf check me on that. they don't need republicans at this point. mike pence and the others know it. they're putting out proposals to their credit, they're putting out detailed ideas. but i'm not sure anybody is listening. >> but they also have the strategy of handing it all to the democrats saying you own this bill. so if it falls flat, they can later use it as a political weapon when the 2010 elections come up. and that's exactly what they're intending to do with the energy bill and potentially health care as well. with the energy bill, if it does raise energies rates and people are still without jobs tand economy is still not doing well, that can be a really powerfu

harry reid, the distinguished majority leader over in the united states senate. so we have narrowed it down to one of these folks. the question mark down there is sadly, and this is really a disappointment to me, sadly some are just saying that it was some staffer that put the thing in. the question mark is this staffer who apparently has the power to change law and make law. i really don't think it was -- it may have been a staffer who was using the pen. clearly a staffer had to be directed by somebody to do that. we thought originally that senator dodd, the chairman. banking committee, might be the person we should focus in on. he's made some public statements. the public statements now have gone back and forth. his office says that they put it into the bill at the request of the treasury. the treasury says that they put it in at the request of senator dodd. so here's what we did. we being the sleuths we are attempting to be we went out and filed a bill that basically would have required these folks to hand over some documents and fess up and tell us why they d

harris and a base hit for michel hernandez. now the nats get anybody out here -- can't get anybody out here in the 6th inning. reidbrignac will be next. >> rob: all there's power hitters in the middle of this tampa bay line-up. two biggest boppers, evan longoria hits a little flair out to the outfield. then your number four guy bunts for a base hit. then the bottom of the order just crushes a couple of home runs. >> bob: i think those last two columns gave you a reason for colome's problems here in tampa. tampa bay, at least. willie harris will catch this one, off the bat of brignac. jesus colome, a 10-7 strikeout to walk ratio. in his years here. tonight's copyrighted telecast presented by the authority of the washington nationals may not be reproduced or retransmitted in any form. everybody in this inning for the rays have batted except for the two speedsters, upton and crawford.  >> bob: very tardy, strik looks to me like they've got some hitters in this line-up who do a lot of guessing. i think he was thinking first pitch slider there. >> rob: i would agree. then you regroup and you